Stuart Cheshire is a Distinguished Engineer, Scientist and Technologist (DEST) at

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. He pioneered

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networking while employed at

. Zeroconf was originally released by Apple as Rendezvous, but later renamed

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. Subsequently, he co-authored the book ''Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide'', published by

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, with Daniel H Steinberg. He is the author or co-author of 27

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RFCs principally concerning

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, and

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. He is also the author of '' Bolo'', a networked tank game, originally written for the

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and later ported to the

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Biography

Education

Stuart Cheshire received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from

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, U.K., in June 1989 and June 1992. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from

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, Stanford, CA, in June 1996 and April 1998. While at Stanford, Stuart Cheshire and his colleague

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designed the

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algorithm.

References

External links

Stuart Cheshire's homepageCheshire's November 2005 Google Tech Talk: "Zero Configuration Networking with Bonjour"
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